Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

A riot is at bottom the language of the unheard.

There is no method by which men can be both free and equal.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul.

I work for a government I despise for ends I think criminal.

Do that which consists in taking no action, and order will prevail.

Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

O citizens, first acquire wealth; you can practice virtue afterward.